We are not talking about the cure for cancer, but it does have it within it to help us make sense of things.

虽然诗歌不能治愈癌症,但它确实能够帮助我们理解事物。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He's trying to indicate that there are things that we can't really know in a scientific way but we can glimpse.

他想说明有些事,我们并不能通过科学来理解,但我们能知道一点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He's just insisting that we cannot understand writing to be derivative.

他只是想说明我们不能将书写理解成为衍生物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So if we say that l is just talking about our kinetic energy part, our rotational kinetic energy, and we know that electrons have potential energy, then it makes sense that l, in fact, can never go higher than n.

如果我们说，l仅仅是,描述动能项，我们的旋转动能，我们知道，电子有势能，所以可以理解，l不能比n高。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Duh!" of course, is our response, and yet at the same time we can't understand a degree of mystery in even so seemingly simple a pronouncement. A beginning, of course--well, it has to have a beginning.

我们肯定要说：“废话！这不是明摆着的么！“，但同时,我们并不能深刻理解这样一个看似浅显的观点,起因，当然啦，一个故事总要有个开头。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选